The first in a 5-part seminar series about Research Making a Difference, featuring Dr. Tim Carey. Dr. Carey is the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Medicine and Director of the Cecil G. Sheps Center for
Health Service Research.
Free lunch will be served at The Carolina Inn at 11:30am and the program will begin at 12:00pm.
All students are welcome regardless of their school, department or research experience. Space is limited so RSVP soon for this or any of the other four seminars this semester:
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Jock Brandis is founder and director of research and development at the Full Belly Project. In 2001, Brandis traveled to Mali to fix a small village’s water treatment system. While there, he came across a woman who told him that it would be of great service to her village if he could find them an affordable peanut sheller. Brandis went back home and designed and developed the Universal Nut Sheller. In 2003 he teamed up with a group of returned Peace Corps volunteers to form the Full Belly Project.

We invite you to join Dr. Jeremy Stuart of Life Technologies, to discuss next-generation PostLight™ sequencing with semiconductor chips. Ion Torrent has developed the world’s first semiconductor-based DNA sequencing technology, directly translating chemical information into digital data. DNA sequencing is performed with all natural nucleotides on Ion’s proprietary semiconductor chips, leveraging a billion years of evolution and a trillion dollars of investment to allow unprecedented scalability, speed, and costs according to Moore’s Law. Because Ion Torrent technology doesn't use light, it vastly reduces the cost and time of sequencing while still delivering next-generation sequencing throughputs. This may democratize the field of next-generation sequencing and have important implications for clinical, diagnostic, and research applications in which speed is of paramount significance.

The Research 201 Workshop will review components necessary for developing strong research questions and hypotheses. Research 201 will expose participants to various research study designs, and describe different methods for gathering data. Participants will consider the best study design and data gathering methods for their research topic of interest.

The CAS hosts speakers from across the world, representing many different areas of research relating to addiction medicine. These experts share their findings and methods, and exhange scientific viewpoints with faculty and students.

Translational research describes the effort to move findings from the lab bench to practice at the bedside and in the community. Research that is relevant to human health has an increasing advantage when reviewers evaluate the significance and impact of a research proposal. This session will describe how some faculty embarked on research programs that are translational. The presentation will focus on how to develop a translational research project, how to convince a reviewer that your research is translational, and where to find the resources for the necessary pilot studies to acquire critical preliminary data.

All SOM are welcome. Dr. AnnaMarie Connolly will present "Modeling Teaching While You Work: Keeping It Real While Teaching Really Well!" on September 22 @ noon and again at 4:30 p.m. Both sessions will be held in Bondurant G010. Lunch will be available for the first 20 at the noon session, and snacks will be provided for the 4:30 p.m. session. We look forward to our new year and bringing these sessions to you!

The Research 201 Workshop will review components necessary for developing strong research questions and hypotheses. Research 201 will expose participants to various research study designs, and describe different methods for gathering data. Participants will consider the best study design and data gathering methods for their research topic of interest.

Please join Dr Howard McLeod, founding director of the UNC Institute of Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy , as he and others celebrate the Institute’s 5 year anniversary. The IPIT Symposium will be held on September 19, 2011 from 1-6pm at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education.

Presenters: Michael Kosorok- "Personalized medicine and clinical trials" and Denise Esserman- "Longitudinal predictor of a binary outcome"
Standing meeting is from 2:15-4:15pm on the third Friday of the month in 2011.
The remaining dates are 10/21, 11/18, and 12/16.